EF Records is an independent record label founded in 2009. Based in LA and Charleston, SC, EF Records artists DJ, host parties, and produce music in a wide range of genres including electro, house, and disco.
Here’s a new live set from our Atlanta based homie Black Dominoes. He closed out the Mad Decent WKND party last week at the legendary Chase St Warehouse with a 3-5am set after a lineup including Paul Devro, Depressed Buttons, Benzona, and DJ HAHA. Check out the mix and the video from Mad Decent below.
Mad Decent WKND – 3-5am – Live with Black Dominoes by blackdominoes
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Friday night: DJ YaYa killed it, as expected. Turnout was awesome despite Blaqstarr doing a show a block away. Dude needs to read our Facebook posts and fix his schedule accordingly! Photos and recap here: (more…)
A legend from the days when techno was techno put his mark on Hollywood this past Monday. In a rare LA appearance Sven Väth, on this tour celebrating 30 years as a DJ, played a memorable 4 hour set at the Music Box bringing in ravers and DJs alike, to take part in a trip that would go down into the depths of techno.
Sven mixed nothing but vinly all night, rarely using headphone, and every so often taking a record off the decks and fanning it at the crowd like it was too hot for the table. The dude was funny, and his veteran status was unquestionable 10 mins into his set. Never have I seen a DJ more relaxed on the decks, just having fun, making faces at the crowd, and vibing to techno like it was 5am in Berlin and he was DJing in his living room to 500 people.
Here are a few videos to take you through the night
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Sub Standard Friday featured the new homies, Tribe of Zebras, go-go dancing, exploitation cinema, drunken baffoonery, and of course, some get buck buck. Sexy ladies with foreign accents and foreign objects in sexy places.
Full recap after the jump, complete with nip slips, cameltoes, and all the classy things you expect from Sub Standard.
Last night was the second Sub Standard party in Hollywood at Purple Lounge.
If you missed it…check out the recap and PICTURES after the jump! (more…)
It’s official: Blaqstarr is going the way of Kanye West: producer cum rapper. I guess we should have known something was up when he started appearing on flyers not as DJ Blaqstarr, but just plain Blaqstarr.
Show review after the jump:
For Electric Friends, NYE 2011 was Hardfest, at the old Fonda theater (now called the Music Box) in Hollywood with a crazy lineup of DJ legends!
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Last Thursday MACHETE and I hit up LA’s Culture Clash in downtown LA. CC in the US brought a battle of 4 local labels; Dim Mak, Stones Throw, Smog, and Dub Club. The spot was the LA Exchange, a music venue in an old bank building, who’s main room brought 50ft marble ceilings and amazing lights. Each label had a 15 min chance to bust out what talent they had in 3 different rounds. By the end of round 2, reggae group Dub Club (who was dropping an amazing reggae set feat. legendary guest MC Shinehead) had, by all accounts, stoned themselves out of the running, and DJ Funk, reppin’ for Dim Mak had brought some crazy booty house to the floor. Check him out in this video working the mic like it was behind on rent.
DJ Funk for those of you who don’t know is a Chicago house legend. He’s the man the behind Ghetto House, Booty House, and everything that got nasty with house music. The only thing better than his booty house beats is his incredible mic work. This is where I see our own JeffET in a year or two.
Dj Funk – Hoes In This House (Richi Jamz Remix) by RichiJamz
By the end, the comp got down to a showdown between Smog and Stones Throw. J Rocc, DJ Craze, Peanutbutter Wolf, and Mayer Hawthorne duked it out until Stones Throw came out on top thanks to some crowd cheering and decible meters…
Check out this awesome/maybe creepy ninja guy rockin out on the Dub Club stage.
-CMNDer
Last Saturday MACHETE and I checked out Simian Mobile Disco at Hollywood mega-club Avalon. Our new homie and Avalon resident, Cody Lee, dropped a seemless tech-house set in the side room, and Simian Mobile brought an ear dismantling DJ performance with lots of lights and lots of bass. Definitely heavy on the techno, which for us is muy bueno.
On a side note, I still don’t get why the crowd is 90% Asian on at this place on Saturdays! I must conclude that the party is seriously goin’ down in China if 50 year old Chinese men are tripping out to techno at 3am in Hollywood… Next EF vacay: Beijing!
The duo recently released a new mixtape with (a couple of their own remixes!) called Is Fixed
One of my recent favorites by new star Pantha du Prince brings the end into some dreamy techno. Get on it.
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